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ROBOCOMM
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Toward multi-level modeling of robotic sensor networks: a case study in acoustic event monitoring
—Modeling and simulation can be powerful tools for analyzing multi-agent systems, such as networked robotic systems and sensor networks. In this paper, it is shown concretely how...
Christopher M. Cianci, Thomas Lochmatter, Jim Pugh...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
Towards optimally efficient field estimation with threshold-based pruning in real robotic sensor networks
Abstract-- The efficiency of distributed sensor networks depends on an optimal trade-off between the usage of resources and data quality. The work in this paper addresses the probl...
Amanda Prorok, Christopher M. Cianci, Alcherio Mar...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
133views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
Spring Loaded Inverted Pendulum embedding: Extensions toward the control of compliant running robots
This paper explores systematic control strategies for the stabilization of running on compliant robots with nontrivial torso pitch dynamics. The Spring Loaded Inverted Pendulum (SL...
Ioannis Poulakakis
CHI
2002
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Mental models of robotic assistants
In the future, interactive robots will perform many helpful tasks. In 5 studies, we developed techniques for measuring the richness and content of people's mental models of a...
Sara B. Kiesler, Jennifer Goetz
IROS
2009
IEEE
127views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Expressive facial speech synthesis on a robotic platform
— This paper presents our expressive facial speech synthesis system Eface, for a social or service robot. Eface aims at enabling a robot to deliver information clearly with empat...
Xingyan Li, Bruce MacDonald, Catherine I. Watson